California’s wildfires leave behind more than smoldering ruins—they trigger a chain reaction of destruction long after the flames are gone. In this special report, correspondent Mike Kirsch ...

What has been the trajectory of water erosion model research in China? What are the most widely used models currently? What ...

Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, U.K., Department of Geography, University College London, Pearson Building, Gower ...

Water erosion degrades the soil and contaminates the environment, and one influential factor on erosion is slope length. The aim of this study was to quantify losses of soil (SL) and water (WL) in a ...

AMONG the factors concerned in the development of soil profiles, erosion has, until recently, received comparatively little attention. I venture to direct attention to two possible examples of the ...

Soils with dispersible subsoils, for example, are subject to serious erosion by tunnelling and gully formation. Understanding the type of soil and how prone it is to erosion can help avoid problems in ...

Corruption remains a significant challenge within Pakistan’s social, political and economic systems, often embedded in daily interactions with public institutions. Rather than being universally ...

FA is enriched with mullite, silica, and alumina. Having such mineralogy, FA can be envisaged as a promising candidate for combating erosion and corrosion in marine environments. With this motivation, ...

We considered three land use scenarios that present distinct erosion rates - predominance of areas with forest cover, pasture, and agriculture. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used ...

Contour planting was one of the practices supported by the SCDAA. After the Dust Bowl era, the public saw how devastating unchecked erosion could be. The newly formed Soil Conservation Service (SCS), ...

The lifespan of septic systems can last anywhere from 20 to 40 years, he said, depending on soil permeability. The surprise septic tank was located in the patches of dirt on the right of this ...